The Nationals experienced difficulties in the late 1990s from two fronts – firstly from the Liberal Party, who were winning seats on the basis that the Nationals were not seen to be a sufficiently separate party, and from the One Nation Party riding a swell of rural discontent with many of the policies such as multiculturalism and gun control embraced by all of the major parties.

These Lords all work in pairs and are Xiquiripat ( Flying Scab ) and Cuchumaquic ( Gathered Blood ), who sicken people's blood ; Ahalpuh ( Pus Demon ) and Ahalgana ( Jaundice Demon ), who cause people's bodies to swell up ; Chamiabac ( Bone Staff ) and Chamiaholom ( Skull Staff ), who turn dead bodies into skeletons ; Ahalmez ( Sweepings Demon ) and Ahaltocob ( Stabbing Demon ), who hide in the unswept areas of people houses and stabbed them to death ; and Xic ( Wing ) and Patan ( Packstrap ), who caused people to die coughing up blood while out walking on a road.

It also lifts and softens the hairs, causing them to swell.

Reinke's edema causes the vocal folds to bilaterally swell giving them an uneven, sac-like appearance.

However, on many other occasions, ( such as in the later Italian Wars, French Wars of Religion and the Eighty Years War ) their bravery and discipline came under severe criticism, and the Spanish elements of the Imperial army regularly deprecated the battlefield usefulness of the Landsknechts — it was said that the Duke of Alba hired them only to deny their services to the Dutch enemy, and put them on display to swell his numbers, not intending to fight with them.

The acid growth theory states that individual cells in the outer layers of the lobes and midrib rapidly move < sup > 1 </ sup > H < sup >+</ sup > ( hydrogen ions ) into their cell walls, lowering the pH and loosening the extracellular components, which allows them to swell rapidly by osmosis, thus elongating and changing the shape of the trap lobe.

In the film's final scene, Orbison is told that his testicles will have to be removed after a number of Orgasmorator-induced orgasms caused them to swell massively.

Miko can use many unusual sexual techniques, such as hardening her pubic hair into needles and firing them at an opponent, or the ' Nyoninboh ' technique which allows her to swell her clitoris to the size of a man's penis and drive female rivals crazy with it.

However, as they had taken the potion after the elixir, the mixture of the two first causes them to swell up like balloons, and then shrink down to a size where they are smaller than blades of grass.

Since he is a very acute observer of behavior and often uses sarcasm " to shrink heads, not swell them ", he is sometimes called a " latter-day Torquemada ".

Rapidly lowering the sodium concentration with free water, once this adaptation has occurred, causes water to flow into brain cells and causes them to swell.

The band used a number of pitch-shifting and time-stretching plugins and matched them with an orchestral swell in an ascending chromatic scale sampled from a classical music album.

The uskoks saw their ranks swell as outlaws from all nations joined them.

Then, a figurine of a person suffering from ascites is brought before them, and they are told that should they break their word, their bellies should swell with water, and the deities of the oath should eat their offspring ( seed ) within their bellies.

Spring thaws can often swell county waterways, with two of the more destructive floods being those of the Columbia River in June 1894 and May, 1948.

There are those amongst the Garou Nation ( particularly the Ragabash ) who argue that, in the age of the Apocalypse this tenet should be lifted, as the Garou could swell their numbers quickly by adding large numbers of Metis to their ranks.

:: From you the thousandfold swell is born, one here, on there,

: I will make the Nile swell for you,

It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory ... each scene is at once so simple and so charged and layered that it catches us again and again ... Somehow all of Bergman's own past, that of his father, that of his reading and doing and seeing, that of his Swedish culture, of his political burning and religious melancholy, poured into a series of pictures which carry that swell of contributions and contradictions so effortlessly that you could tell the story to a child, publish it as a storybook of photographs and yet know that the deepest questions of religion and the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive are both addressed.

It's swell to have a good catcher calling ' em for you, but the pitcher should take responsibility on his own shoulders.

Granado later lamented that although he and Guevara were impressed by the mine's high-tech machinery, " this ( was ) eclipsed by the indignation aroused when you think that all this wealth only goes to swell the coffers of Yankee capitalism.

You see the trembling, the faltering, you see how his throbbing breast begins to swell ; this I have expressed by a crescendo.

A radio edit was commissioned for the track which cuts the flanged " you got it all " swell at the beginning of the song.

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.

Carbon-fiber and phenolic composite materials have become desirable for building necks, and at least one high-end luthier ( Composite Acoustics ) produces a line of all-carbon-fiber guitars, prized for their high stability in changing climates that would cause wood instrument panels to swell and shrink.

*** The swell of the muzzle refers to the slight swell in the diameter of the piece at the very end of the chase.

It is easily distinguished by the large swell at the end of the blade to facilitate chopping.

Cuban military and DGI advisors, initially brought in during the Sandinista insurgency, would swell to over 2, 500 and operated at all levels of the new Nicaraguan government.

Having this simple but essential mathematical proportion at hand – which proved the overall impossible aforementioned role of the liver – Harvey went on to prove how the blood circulated in a circle by means of countless experiments initially done on serpents and fish: tying their veins and arteries in separate periods of time, Harvey noticed the modifications which occurred ; indeed, as he tied the veins, the heart would become empty, while as he did the same to the arteries, the organ would swell up.

Eston became a professional musician and bandleader, " a master of the violin, and an accomplished ' caller ' of dances ", who " always officiated at the ' swell ' entertainments of Chillicothe.

Ross reported that at Wishram the summer encampments when the Salmon were runnning could swell to 3, 000 natives.

* If eyes have been affected, to irrigate with copious amounts of room-temperature tap water for at least 15 minutes, and if vision blurs or the eyes continue to tear, hurt, swell, or show light sensitivity after irrigating, or there is any concern, to see a doctor as soon as possible.

Many thousands of volunteers did indeed swell the ranks, but at least half of the French forces were professional regulars, particularly among Kellermann's critical artillery units which were widely regarded as the best in Europe at the time.

* Freeride: Boards meant for comfortable recreational cruising ( mostly straight-line sailing and occasional turning ) at planing speed ( aka blasting ), mainly in flat waters or in light to moderate swell.

They have a small wave height offshore, and a very long wavelength ( often hundreds of kilometers long ), and generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a slight swell usually of the order of above the normal sea surface.

In 1932, while being treated at the Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Zelda had a swell of creativity.

Much of the coastline at the western end of the Bristol Channel faces west towards the Atlantic Ocean meaning that a combination of an off-shore ( east ) wind and a generous Atlantic swell produces excellent surf along the beaches.

His belief that a strait separated the mainland from Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ) was backed up by his astute observation of the rapid tide and the long south-western swell at Wilsons Promontory.

Further new housing developments at Broadlands to the south-west of the town centre and the continuing expansion of Brackla to the north-east has caused Bridgend's population to swell dramatically.

Due to this, rip currents are extremely strong especially near the rocks at either end of the beach and at low tide, even when there is only a small swell.

Thompson testified at McManus's trial, describing him as " a swell loser " who would never have shot Rothstein.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: " Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estate which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be grated, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.